How High Can You Count: New Facebook Fundraising? — Here's an interesting idea if you don't want to get bought and you can't quite IPO yet and you need to have a tidy war chest for expansion or perhaps a choice acquisition or two: Bring in more investors and raise more money at a huge valuation.

AjaxWindows: Most interesting Web OS experiment yet — I still don't fully get the whole Web operating system concept. Why run an OS inside a browser, when your browser is running in an OS to begin with? But AjaxWindows, a Web OS and application suite that launched today, makes a very good case for the Web OS.

Black screen of darkness to haunt Vista pirates — Buy the software or suffer the consequences — Microsoft Windows' infamous "Blue Screen of Death" has become synonymous with an operating system crash or freeze, but that's nothing compared with what users of pirated copies of Vista worldwide …

Facebook 'costs businesses dear' — Workers who spend time on sites such as Facebook could be costing firms over £130m a day, a study has calculated. — According to employment law firm Peninsula, 233 million hours are lost every month as a result of employees "wasting time" on social networking.

T-Mobile's new data plans — Just when you thought they couldn't get any cheaper....T-Mobile is set to completely revamp their data plan lineup with a new pricing scheme that is sure to make subscribers swoon. Beginning tomorrow, September 12th, the big Pink will be dropping updates …

Watchdog bitten in Google case — THE consumer watchdog suffered a blow in its mammoth court case against Google, when a judge said yesterday its court documents were almost "incomprehensible", "opaque" and "somewhat repetitious". — The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission …

When it comes to music fans, iLike faces Myspace — ILike, by far the most popular music application on Facebook, has started overtaking MySpace in sheer number of fans registered for some top music artists. — The young Seattle company is being coy on specifics, but consider this …

Intel 45nm fab to open in 45 days — SAN FRANCISCO—In 45 days, Intel will open its first high-volume facility for building chips that use a 45-nanometer manufacturing process. — The facility, called Fab 32, is a new one built in Chandler, Ariz., said spokesman Nick Knupffer, in an interview here at the VMworld conference.

Who blocks the (ad) blockers? — The New York Times recently covered the already over-hyped dispute between Danny Carlton, an obscure Web site designer, and the makers of the popular Adblock Plus Firefox browser extension. — Adblock Plus is something akin to a TiVo for Web-browsing.

Google Health's Adam Bosworth Leaves Google — I got a tip that Google vice president Adam Bosworth, who headed up the Google Health project, had left Google. Now Google has confirmed this is so — Bosworth is leaving the company. Says Google: … Bosworth joined Google in July 2004, having left BEA Systems.

Google Reader Numbers — Here are some interesting facts about Google Reader: — * Google Reader has two kinds of feeds: — feeds that have one subscriber (two thirds from the number of feeds, they're updated every 3 hours) — feeds that have more than one subscriber (these feeds are updated every hour)